Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2015 19:01:29 GMT
One of the more deplorable aspects of the arbitrary way in which the club blew up the old message board was the wipe out of the competition in which we had all made our predictions for the 2014 season in good faith that a winner would be declared in September.
I'm going to claim that I won, safe in the knowledge that as the club destroyed the evidence, nobody can say that I didn't!
Probably still a bit early to start the competition on here for 2015; but I see the club website is already running a poll on who will be first to 1,000 runs.
It's as half-baked as you might fear, in that it doesn't specify whether it's 1000 first-class runs or whether it includes non f/c matches.
But it has a list of five serious contenders (we can ignore the jokey inclusion of Magoffin), two of whom I don't expect to be in the first choice XI come April - Yardy and Hamilton-Brown. Yet it doesn't include Cachopa or Prior (hh is going to read all kinds of messages into the exclusion of the latter - and who is to say he's wrong?)
If the top six in the first LVCC goes:
Wells/Nash/Joyce/Cachopa/Wright/Prior or Brown
then I fancy a punt on Cachopa as the first to the landmark - particularly if it means all matches, as Wells and Joyce have not often been first choice picks in white ball cricket.
The fact that Wright isn't playing in the IPL this year makes him my second choice. But traditionally the extra workload involved in a benefit season results in a lesser performance, so I'm sticking with Craig C to head the chase...
I'm going to claim that I won, safe in the knowledge that as the club destroyed the evidence, nobody can say that I didn't!
Probably still a bit early to start the competition on here for 2015; but I see the club website is already running a poll on who will be first to 1,000 runs.
It's as half-baked as you might fear, in that it doesn't specify whether it's 1000 first-class runs or whether it includes non f/c matches.
But it has a list of five serious contenders (we can ignore the jokey inclusion of Magoffin), two of whom I don't expect to be in the first choice XI come April - Yardy and Hamilton-Brown. Yet it doesn't include Cachopa or Prior (hh is going to read all kinds of messages into the exclusion of the latter - and who is to say he's wrong?)
If the top six in the first LVCC goes:
Wells/Nash/Joyce/Cachopa/Wright/Prior or Brown
then I fancy a punt on Cachopa as the first to the landmark - particularly if it means all matches, as Wells and Joyce have not often been first choice picks in white ball cricket.
The fact that Wright isn't playing in the IPL this year makes him my second choice. But traditionally the extra workload involved in a benefit season results in a lesser performance, so I'm sticking with Craig C to head the chase...
